Genesis 39:9 BSB

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

Joseph, Servant of Potiphar Genesis 39:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a chapter that is thrown in between the story of Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites, and Joseph bought by Potiphar and made a servant in Egypt. That chapter is the thirty-eighth. It seems to break the continuity of the message concerning Joseph, and yet it is vitally placed just where it is. From a prophetical viewpoint the story of Judah and his marriage to Shuah seems to us to set forth the story of Israel during the period... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 39:9

‘YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION, FOR YIELDING IS SIN’‘How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?’ Genesis 39:9 We are accustomed to admire the mere act of resistance to temptation, by whomsoever and howsoever offered. But there is a vast difference between the ways in which temptation is resisted. Some, knowing the thing desired of them to be essentially wrong, have recourse to cowardly shifts and evasions. They are unable to comply; thus much they will answer; but for this inability... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Joseph Is Sold Into Slavery, Resists Temptation and Strangely Prospers in Prison (Genesis 39:1-23 ). That what now happens to Joseph is in the hands of Yahweh is abundantly made clear (Genesis 38:2-3; Genesis 38:21). He is with him there in that strange land able to bring about His will. He is Lord of all the earth. Genesis 39:1 . “And Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh” s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Genesis 39. Joseph Repels his Master's Wife, and is Imprisoned on her False Accusation.— This section is from J with touches from E. It is generally agreed that “ Potiphar . . . guard” is an insertion in Genesis 39:1. J represents Joseph as sold to an unnamed Egyptian; the governor of the prison is also unnamed. According to E, Joseph is sold to Potiphar the captain of the guard, and attends, not as himself a prisoner, but as Potiphar’ s slave ( cf. Genesis 41:12), to the officers who are in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 39:7-12

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 39:9. Sin against God.] Joseph uses the common name for God in addressing this Egyptian.—Genesis 39:11. About this time.] Heb. At this day. The day on which the occurrence now related took place. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 39:7-12THE TEMPTATION OF JOSEPHI. The strength of it. Joseph had been severely tried on the side of endurance of adversity, now he is tried by the more perilous temptation of sensuality. This was a most fierce temptation, when we... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 39:9

Genesis 39:9 We are accustomed to admire the mere act of resistance to temptation, by whomsoever and howsoever offered. But there is a vast difference between the ways in which temptation is resisted. Some, knowing the thing desired of them to be essentially wrong, have recourse to cowardly shifts and evasions. They are unable to comply; thus much they will answer; but for this inability they will render all sorts of secondary and insufficient reasons, and keep back the right one. How very... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 39:9

DISCOURSE: 51THE NEED OF FLEEING FROM SIN WITH ABHORRENCEGenesis 39:9. How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?THE grace of God is equally necessary for us in every situation of life; in adversity, to support us; and in prosperity, to keep us—We should have been ready indeed to congratulate Joseph on his advancement in the house of Potiphar, as though his trials had been ended: but we see that, if his former path was strewed with thorns, his present station was slippery, and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

Now we get back in chapter thirty-nine to the story again. This is just a little interlude and it is just sort of a parenthetical-kind of a thing thrown in and now we get back to Joseph. Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him at the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down to Egypt. And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man ( Genesis 39:1-2 ); "The LORD was with Joseph." This is the summation... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 39:1-23

Genesis 39:1. Potiphar. What a providence, that Joseph was bought by a man in whom Pharaoh had placed very much confidence. Captain of the guard. He seems to have been a military superintendent of the butchers, bakers, and every other class of servants in the king’s household. Genesis 39:2. The Lord was with Joseph. The Targum reads, The Word of the Lord was Joseph’s helper; that is, the Messiah. Genesis 39:7. It came to pass. In the eleventh year of Joseph’s servitude, when he... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 39:9-12

Genesis 39:9-12How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?--Joseph’s resistanceWe are accustomed to admire the mere act of resistance to temptation, by whomsoever and howsoever offered. But there is a vast difference between the ways in which temptation is resisted. Some, knowing the thing desired of them to be essentially wrong, have recourse to cowardly shifts and evasions. They are unable to comply; thus much they will answer; but for this inability they will render all sorts of... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 39:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 39:1-23

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 39:7-12

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 39:9

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 39:9

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 39:1-23

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 39:1-23

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 39:9-12

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